review Archive
06 Apr 2011
Album Review: Loveland – Order to Love
While I delighted in the release of Illegitimate Spawn, that 2007 Fuzztones tribute album gave me pause. The venerated garage-revival group hadn’t turned out a lot of new material recently; […]
05 Apr 2011
Album Review: the Fuzztones – Preaching to the Perverted
Some things can be counted on to never change. Other things do in fact change in basic ways, yet somehow remaining true to their original intent. In both those categories, […]
04 Apr 2011
Album Review: The Definitive Albert King on Stax
Albert King is (or was) The Man. Even rock fans who’ve never heard (or actively listened for) King will find his music oddly familiar. And the reason for that is […]
01 Apr 2011
Album Review: Grateful Dead – Road Trips Vol. 4, No. 2: April Fools
Some context is necessary before diving into this one. In 1989 my dear sister purchased a pair of concert tickets for me and my then-new wife. The tickets were to […]
29 Mar 2011
Album Review: Cal Tjader / Stan Getz – Sextet
As a very young child, I was already quite the precocious pop music consumer. Born mere days after JFK was tragically struck down in Dallas, by 1968-69 I was an […]
28 Mar 2011
Album Review: Nektar – A Tab in the Ocean
Having come of age in the 1970s, I was familiar with Nektar – the band name, not the music itself – by two means. First, three-inch-square reproductions of their back […]
25 Mar 2011
DVD Review: What Ever Happened to Pink Floyd?
When choosing a favorite era, fans of Pink Floyd have a lot from which to choose. Some insist the band did its best work in the early days before Syd […]
24 Mar 2011
Book Review: John Borack – Life is What Happens
John Borack’s John Lennon: Life is What Happens is subtitled “Music, Memories & Memorabilia,” and that’s a tidy summing-up of what this book is all about. Part social commentary, part […]
23 Mar 2011
Album Review: Blackfield – Welcome to my DNA
It’s a common sentiment among music fans who’ve lived through the 60s, 70s or even 1980s: Music’s not as good as it used to be. They just don’t make it […]
22 Mar 2011
Single Review: White Orange
The a-side of White Orange’s single “…And This is Why I Speak to You in Parables” unfolds with insistent sheets of gauzy, hazy, druggy guitar figures. A sludgy Sabbathy rhythm […]